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Development and democracy / Mesquita, Bruce Bueno De; Downs, George W

Sep-Oct 2005 Journal Article

Mesquita, Bruce Bueno de	Journal Article
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Publication	Sep-Oct 2005.
Summary/Abstract	Conventional wisdom has long assumed that economic liberalization undermines repressive regimes. Recent events, however, suggest that savvy autocrats have learned how to cut the cord between growth and freedom, enjoying the benefits of the former without the risks of the latter. Washington and international lenders should take note.

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Development ; Liberalization ; Economic Liberalization ; Iran - Democracy - 1941-1953

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ID: 073978

Intervention and democracy / Mesquita, Bruce Bueno de; Downs, George W

Mesquita, Bruce Bueno de	Journal Article
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2006.

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Recent events have raised questions about the extent to which military intervention promotes democracy and the degree to which this depends on the nature of the intervener. We argue that traction on these issues is best obtained by focusing on the policies of the target state that have the greatest implications for the political survival of the intervening state's leader and the kind of governmental institutions in the target state that are most likely to produce them. This perspective generally-although not always-predicts that third-party military intervention in civil wars, other intra- or interstate disputes and wars will lead to little if any improvement, and all too often erosion in the trajectory of democratic development. Three hypotheses on the impact of third-party intervention by democracies, autocracies, and the United Nations are then tested and strongly supported against a counterfactual expectation of what the democratic trajectory would have been in the absence of intervention.

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Military Intervention ; Iran - Democracy - 1941-1953

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Thinking inside the box: a closer look at democracy and human rights / DeMesquita, Bruce Bueno; Downs, George W; Smith, Alastair

Sep 2005

Smith, Alastair	Journal Article
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Sep 2005.

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Human Rights ; Iran - Democracy - 1941-1953

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